Monday, June 18, 2012

Looking at the newest release of JBoss Business Rules Management System (BRMS) 5.3 we will now have access to the newest member of the JBoss BRMS family, jBPM as a Business Process Management (BPM) component.

Introduction
We wanted to put together some demo that would showcase the BPM features that have been made available to Enterprise developers. When the community project jBPM published a Rewards Demo highlighting the Human Task features, we wanted to take this across to our JBoss Enterprise BRMS product as an example application.

This project will provide a fully installed
and configured JBoss BRMS environment so that you can demo the project in
all the available BPM components. It will provide you with a JBoss
Developer Studio project complete with unit tests to allow you to easily demo the project in the JBoss Developer Studio IDE. It will provide a repository that you can import into your new JBoss BRMS Business Rules Manager component and demo the BPMN2 Web Designer, web based Business Central admin console and knowledge asset manager BRM tooling.

The process is a simple example that shows how to integrate Human Tasks and Custom Work Items in your processes in JBoss BRMS. This article will get you up and running in minutes with a fully operational Rewards Approval Demo project.

Getting the project
The project is available on Github at https://github.com/eschabell/brms-rewards-demo. You can retrieve this with a simple 'git clone git://github.com/eschabell/brms-rewards-demo.git' after which you can follow the step-by-step guide found in the Quick Start Guide. This is provided in both ODT and PDF formats. It is all kicked off by the init.sh script you will find in the project, which is quite verbose and points you to the various steps you might need to take should you have chosen to not to read the provided Quick Start Guide.

Rewards Approval Demo project overview
Once you have the demo project installed, you can follow along in the Quick Start Guide to see the various components in action. You can also watch the following video as I run through the various functionality that is provided by JBoss BRMS (available on YouTube and Vimeo):

Feedback welcome

Please feel free to provide feedback and suggestions for this demo. We will take any and all pull requests that can improve the demo experience. We hope you enjoy this demo experience.